Augustinus De trinitate
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Augustinus De trinitate
Other titles: De trinitate
Classmark: BC Incunabula/AUG
Creator(s): Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Additional creator(s): Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513) (Printer); Atkinson, Richard (Former owner); Fauconberg, Thomas Belasyse Earl (1699-1774) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Amerbach, Johannes; Atkinson, Richard; Fauconberg, Thomas Belasyse; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Iohanne[m] de Amerbach; Johann Amerbach
Publication city: [Basel]
Date(s): Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxix. [1489]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [86] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39365
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007729559705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-k in alternate 8s and 6s l-m⁶.
Date of printing from explicit on leaf m3v: Aurelij Augustini de trinitate liber explicitus est. Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxix.
Explicit note on m6v in part reads: Ioanne[m] de Amerbach:presens qui tibi pressit opus.
Printed in two columns with 54 lines to a full column.
Inital spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01343000.
Indexed in: Hain 2037; BMC III 751.
Features
Marginal annotations in early black ink manuscript throughout.
Initials supplied in red and blue.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Water damage to the outer margins.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of full dark brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked and much repaired. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of double fillets containing a design of diagonal triple fillets with stylised foliage. The replacement spine is of brown calf and has four raised bands. The words De Trinitate - Augustine are gold-tooled in the second panel. Gold-tooled in the bottom panel: Basilea 1489. Size: 330 x 233mm. Leaf size: 315 x 221mm.
Bound with one other item. Volume contents: 1. Augustine, Saint: De Trinitate, 1489. -- 2. Augustine, Saint: De civitatae Dei, 1489.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth-century, on the back pastedown: anno salutiferi virginalis partus octogesimonono: supra M[illesimum]: quaterq[ue] C[entisi]mu[m] Id[ibus] Feb[ruariis] [eius?] Richardos Atkinson. The name is written in Greek characters.
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Belasyse, 4th Viscount Fauconberg, on the front pastedown with the motto: Bonne et belle assez. From the library of the family of Belasyse, lords Fauconberg. Written in ink manuscript on the bookplate is a library number: B. 13. 1.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg (1699-1774)
Biography of Thomas Belasyse, Earl Fauconberg, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.